Comment by johnklos
It feels almost more useful than BASIC on the Atari 2600, at least.
It feels almost more useful than BASIC on the Atari 2600, at least.
That's astonishing. They must make a loss on every one they sell. I bet they don't sell many though, they want 21 EUR to send it to Norway!
Oh! I expected it to be cheaper shipping within Europe. I live on completely the other side of the world (antipodes of Spain or Casablanca to be precise)and it was a similar price. I took 18, which doubled the overall cost compared to getting just 1 (shipping was 30.92 EUR).
The MOS 6532 RAM-I/O-Timer chip used by the 2600 (and KIM-1 and others) has 128 bytes of RAM. Game cartridges could add 256 bytes more, along with the program ROM.
For an experience today closer to these machines, you can get a $0.10 CH32V003 microcontroller with 2k RAM and 16k flash.
Here's a 1 Euro retro-computer kit using one that has included in that price support for PS/2 keyboard and VGA video output, all included in the 1 Euro -- even the connectors! All from one 8 pin microcontroller chip:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/RVPC/open-so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXWs4CJuY0